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2. Ashtanga Namaskara - Wikipedia

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   Ashtanga Namaskara. Ashtanga Namaskara (Sanskrit: अष्टाङ्ग नमस्कार), Ashtanga Dandavat Pranam [1] (अष्टाङ्ग दण्डवत् प्रणाम्), Eight Limbed pose, Caterpillar pose, [2] or Chest, Knees and Chin pose is an asana sometimes used in the Surya Namaskar sequence in modern yoga as exercise, where the body is balanced on eight ...

3. Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga) - Wikipedia

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   Patanjali set out his definition of yoga in the Yoga Sutras as having eight limbs (अष्टाङ्ग aṣṭ āṅga, "eight limbs") as follows: The eight limbs of yoga are yama (abstinences), niyama (observances), asana (yoga postures), pranayama (breath control), pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses), dharana (concentration), dhyana ...

4. Astavakrasana - Wikipedia

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   The pose was unknown in hatha yoga until the 20th century Light on Yoga, but the pose appears in the 1896 Vyayama Dipika, a manual of gymnastics, so Norman Sjoman suggests that it was one of the poses adopted into modern yoga in Mysore by Krishnamacharya. The pose would then have been taken up by his pupils Pattabhi Jois and B. K. S. Iyengar. [4]

5. Asana - Wikipedia

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   A page from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and Bhasya commentary (c. 2nd to 4th century CE), which placed asana as one of the eight limbs of classical yoga. The eight limbs are, in order, the yamas (codes of social conduct), niyamas (self-observances), asanas (postures), pranayama (breath work), pratyahara (sense withdrawal or non-attachment), dharana ...

6. List of asanas - Wikipedia

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   A single asana is listed for each main pose, whether or not there are variations. Thus for Sirsasana (Yoga headstand), only one pose is illustrated, although the pose can be varied by moving the legs apart sideways or front-and-back, by lowering one leg to the floor, by folding the legs into lotus posture, by turning the hips to one side, by placing the hands differently on the ground, and so on.

7. 10 ways you're really annoying your yoga teacher and ... - AOL

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   The beauty of yoga is the dozens of variations and modifications for the poses, no matter the age, injury, ailment or body type." – Giulia Pline, yoga teacher at House of Jai, Kula Yoga Project ...

8. Yoga - Wikipedia

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   A number of yoga texts, such as the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Yoga Kundalini and the Yoga Tattva Upanishads, have borrowed from (or frequently refer to) the Yoga Yajnavalkya. [196] It discusses eight yoga asanas (Swastika, Gomukha, Padma, Vira, Simha, Bhadra, Mukta and Mayura), [ 197 ] a number of breathing exercises for body cleansing, [ 198 ...

9. Here are 4 places on your body you should never foam roll ...

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   This one may be surprising because the lower back is a sore point for many people. ... you can try yoga poses to stretch out your lower back muscles — for instance, child's pose can help offer ...